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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1946.

PLAN Big Four Turn Big Four Turn To Reparations Problems

ARMAMENTS CONTROL PLAN WELCOMED BY POWERS

New York, Nov, 20.

Soviet Concession RESERVIST DATA Empire Communist The Big Four Foreign Mini

On Navigation

Of The Danube

New York, Nov, 28.

he

The Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Vyacheslav Molotov, agreed to- night at the meeting of the. Big accept Four Foregint Ministers to the principle of free navigation of the Danubee river, However, refused to permit it to be written into the text of the five Axls satel He treaties and asked for a separate Four agreement thereon instead. M. Molotov suggested the "Navigation on lowing text;

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the

river Danube shall be free and open to citizens, vessels and goods of all stales on the basis ot equality in regard to port and navigation charges and conditons of: commer- clot shipping within the limita of customary commercial relations

Mr. James Byrnes, United States Secretary of State, said that if M. Molotov would let this text be

written into the treaties, he would be willing to give up the iden of providing in the treaty texts for a Danubian conference, M. Molotov asked for time to study the pro- posal and the Ministers planned to take it up again after considering the reparations problem.

The final reparations figures for the five satellies were on the day's programme, due after a ses- sion-the most Jovial since the Big Four convened here of over four hours when 3 Byrnes askedd for a postponement until to-morrow: Mr Byrnes then invited his colleagues to a buffet supper, which included. roust turkey, on the occasion of the nationwide holiday of giving.-United Press.

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INCLUSION ΑΝ

ESSENTIAL

OUTLAWING

OUTLAWING OF ATOMIC

WEAPONS INSUFFICIENT, SAYS U.S. DELEGATE

NEW YORK, NOV. 29. DENMARK AND NORWAY WARMLY WELCOMED MR V. MOLOTOV'S NEW PRO- POSALS FOR DISARMAMENT WHEN THE POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESUMED ITS DEBATE TO-DAY.

Mr Gustav Rasmussen, of Denmark, added that the terms in which the British delegate had expressed himself gave new reason to hope that, in spite of Не difficulties, an agreement might be achieved> said that by accepting the principle of control the Soviets had brought the reduction of armament a great step forward.

"Soviet initiative may prove to be the foundation stone for the coming international agreement," he said,

Molotov, who first pro- Mroorman Makin, of Australia, posed a ban on the war use of declared: "The Soviet representative control atomic energy yesterday, urged said that commissions of

should be

established within the a system of worldwide inspec-framework of the Security Council. tion and the creation of two We should like to be quite clear whether that means any decisions of inspection to commissions. ensure that disarmament deci-ject to review and approval by the of the commissions are to be sub- sions of the Security Council Security Council. were carried out.

Russia Blamed For

Pacific Uncertainty

San Francisco, Nov. 20. Mr. James Farley, arriving by air from Honolulu to-day after a 35,000-

The Norweglan delegate said that mile Pacifle tour, blamed Russia's failure to co-operate with the rest his country had perhaps given more widespread attention to social and economie pro-

of the

worlit fo the a through... | blems than to armaments in the past.

uncertainty which he

out the

Pacific.

He said, "That uncertainty cannot the side of faith and reason, be dispelled until all

the

peace

"We are not ashamed if we erred on and fundamentally we. thought that schools, hospitals and homes for peo- Mr Farley WBS formerly Post-ple were more important than the master General and Democratie Na-tools of mass murder." tional Chairman.-United Press.

treaties are dully written."

Foreign Volunteers In

Greek Rebels' "Ranks

among

Norway had learnt a costly lesson from the bitter experience of inva- sion, he went on. Fullment of the the military agreements provided in Charter was urgent.

of armaments was inseparably bound up with collective security, The world has become weary of words and the dangerous illustion of paper security,

"If that were so, the committee must recognise that, owing to the (Continued on Page 6)

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sters, having virtually agreed on

garding Triesto and free naviga- tion of the Danube to-day turn- ed to the $1,350,000,000 'repara- tions bill against the five former axis satellite.

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Japanese Reparations Blueprint

VISIBLE TRADE SURPLUS EXPECTED

BY 1948, SAYS PAULEY

Washington, Nov. 29.

The reparations "blueprint" of President Truman's envoy, Mr Edwin Pauley, as published by, the press to-day, showed he recommended to the President that Japan's industrial potential be stripped to meet only domestic needs.

He foresaw Japan with n 1946 trade deficit of 124,000,000 yen which would be reduced next year to a 39,000,000 yen, but by 1948 it might have" a ́ visible trade surplus of 123,000,000 yen.

London, Nov. 29.

Once that final problem is agreed, 'India, Palestine and British final settlement of the five treaties colonial polley will be discussed should not be difficult

attain, ht the conference here of twelve though there still exist many Issues Communist partics of the Bri- on which a last-minute deadlota i

possible. tish Empire, called by the Bri- To-day's reparations discussion tish Communist Party for Feb-centres around the totals fixed by Mr Rauley stressed the opinion

It will last until the Paris Conference:

1908 Rumania that Gen Douglas MacArthur ruary 26.

$300,000,000, all to the USS; Fincolng a first rate job but needs a March 2

The opening speech on "The Com-land-$300,000,000, all to the USSR clear reparations policy so that, he on start conversion of the Japanese munist parties of the Empire had Hungary-$200,000,000 to Russin and

industry from war to peace. to fight for peace and democracy, $50,000.000 each to Czecho-Slovakia will probably be made by Rajani and Yugo-Slavia; Italy-$100,000,000 Palme Dutt, son of an Indian father cach to Russia, Greece and Yugo- and the British Communist Party Slavia, and $25,000,000 to Ethiopia. Executive's expert on Empire mat- Dispute centres chiefly on Italian

Shipping Japan's Russia

wants to ters.

erseas Communist crease Belgrade's shore and wants minimum tonnage of 1,300,000 gross

reparations.

In marine to be limited to a workable parties so far invited are le Comromo for Albania, despite the fact tons of steel vessels of not more than mwilst parties of India, South Africa. that Albania fought the war on the 5,000 gross tons with a top speed Northern Ireland, Australia, New the sanie Axis side as Italy. The of 12 kriots. This would be assigned ដងខងនយងរកតាមាកម្ម|secondary dispute

garian payments which the United island trade;

The eleven overseas

UP IN MID-AIR

concerns

Summarised, Mr Pauley's blue- print consists:

Hun-n

merchant

Pons follows: 1,25mons for homo

tons for

Persian Premier

Warning To Azerbaijan

Teheran, Nov. 29. Premier Ghavam ca Sultanch

MOSQUITO PLANE BLOWS States wants to reduce drastically, with North Kore on one has warned Azerbaijan that he

It was the general impression to 125.000 tons for trade with Kores, will call off the scheduled elec day that if the Big Four can find Dairen, Formosa and China. Avall- tions there if they keep Central a basls for a reparations agreement,able for reparations will be 114 their 14 months' labour will be near and the treaties muy be signed

London, Nov. 29, Two Royal Air Force men were killed to-night when their Mos- quito plane exploded in mid-air over the Thames at Whitchurch. Oxfordshire.

The plane was flying low to- wards its aerodrome at Benson When It

went into a spiral dive and blew up,

At Croydon a Dragon Rapide hospital plane on delivery flight to the Danish Red Cross 11 Copenhagen was damaged Lo-

day.

The pilot had landed to clear tho customs and the plane was parked with the brakes on bat with no blocks under the wheels. A sudden Euest of wind blew fi baolewards into some rallings, damaging the tall and a wing. Nobody was in the plane at the time-eater.

Zealand, Burma, Ceylon,

and Malaya

by Christmas-United Press.

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IRA Chief To

Be Released

Belfast, Nov. 29. David Fleming, 26-year-old former Irish Republican Army chieftain, whose hunger strikes in the Belfast Gaol have brought him close to death several times in the past year, will be released this afternoon, it was learned to-day.

Fleming, whose series of hunger strikes protesting. his 12-year-penal servitude sentence which he began in 1943 have brought him worldwide and Palestine, the AKEO movement attention during the past year, will of Cyprus and the "Labour Pro-walk from the prison a free man on gressives of Canada," Affirmative

from

ter

to

.usc

result of TDICS Wions by

hia

replies have already been received, orders of Northern Ireland's Minis- Mr Edmund of Home Affairs, all except

New Zealand.

Warnock, Jerusalem, Nov. 29.

conference will fallow closely The British Liberty ships on

Although no official announcement the next Congress of the Com- was made. it was understood that the Empire Heywood, Empire Rival munist Party of Great Britain, to A reduction

Warnock issued instructions Lor release this morning. and Ocean Vigour left for which resolutions on polley will be yeming's submitted. Cyprus to-day with nearly 4,000 As some fraternal delegates from Sources close to Warnock said the

declded Jewish illegal immigrants fol-European Communist parties are ex- Alheng, Nov, 20.

prerogativ of exercising mercy Press nulitary dispatches said to.

lowing the rejection by the pected at the British Party's Con-

of Fleming's state of health day that "foreign volunteers" were

Palestine High Court of the gress, London may becomes the ren-. the rebel forces killed by "The only thing that can make Jews' polition for writs

ofdezvous of most of the Communist after his long privation "and as a the Government troops

us go in for a reduction of arma habeas corpus. clearing the

[parties of the world.

British Home Five. Foints guerilla strong point near Mountments is abs lute conviction, based

AJewish Agency spokesman,

The Home Office spokesman 'In The preliminary agenda includes. London said nothing was known Crammos,

on hard face, that this great or commenting on the court's rejection, apart from the opening debate on one ranisation must prevent a repeti-zaid the Agency had reliable in the Gght for, peace and democracy, / there of such representations, but tion of what happened in 1040"

formation that official quarters in four more points.

promised inquiries. He pointed out that the Home London, such as the Colonial OMec,

One point will deal with the it was unlikely were not opposed to the admission working class and peasant move- Secretary would have Intervened on

behalf of the IRA leader. of 4,000 illegal Jewish immigrants ments in the Empire," and will give into Palestine.

Arrangements were made to take reports from "Their counsels had been made various

an opportunity for

Fleming in an ambulance across the known to the Palestine Administra-

There will be separate discussions border into Eire and down to Dublin tion and particularly to the military on India, the British colonial sys- this afternoon. but they had not been heeded," hetem, Palestine and the Middle East. Fleming, who still was very weak

a result

The nationality of the volunteers was not disclosed-Reuler.

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"greatly regrets that it has British Communist Party, ways that

a physician, once more been compelled to transfer the conference will not make do- Fleming's sentence was, Imposed illegal immigrants to Cyprus. It cisions on polley because, since the originally for treason felony.United. recognises the disappointment and (Continued on Pago 8) distress suffered by the immigrants themselves and the depth of feeling which these deportations Cause among the Jews of Palestine.

British ist information sheet strike which ended several days.

"Such action is most distasteful and ·Its cause · is · deptored but no country in the world can permit illegal entry of many thousands of people who, in the present ele, are encouraged and assisted to make the attempt in complete disregard of the warnings repeatedly Elven that they will not be allowed to land. Those attenipis merely destroy and bring to nothing the efforts being made by both

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STRANGE RELIEF CARGO

CONSIGNED TO CHINA

London, Nov. 29.

The assertion that much goods intended by UNRRA for the Chinese never reached them, and that some of the goods were unsuitable, was made in the House of Commons to-day by the Labour Member, Lt Col. Rees Williams, who recently visited the Far East.

He also said there were per- Chinese were surprised to find slatent stories of corruption a consignment of women's body which led to goods passing into belts.

The Colonial Office in London sald' this afternoon there was absolutely no truth in the reports that it was the black market, and there was However much relief and rehab!- not opposed to the admission into a feeling that some of the goods utation, these might have given to Palestine of the immigrants-Reuter. were being used for carrying on the ladies of New York, he said,

Anunte's Silence

the war.

they were not really the kind of re- Regarding unsuitable goods, let supplies to send to China.

Mr. Hector McNeil, Minister of Leumi, following the decision of the Col. Rees Williams said there state, replying to the discussion of the was a strong suspicion that some what was to happen to Europe when Patcatine Supreme Court in habeas corpus action, called for one American business firms dum-UNRRA ceased to function, and that some of the If Col. Rees Williams would minute's silence at 3 p.m. to-day ped on UNRRA during which traffic will halt and all goods for which they no longer cive him further particulars of the business and ollier activity will aus-

belts, he would have inquiries made. paid to protect the court judgment found a market in the United allegation made about the body

Statcu, For instance, -Ualled Press.

theRouter.

ships

un-

of 6,000 or more tons and 30 to 40 Government troops out and shipyards, after the retention of 10 urged them against any large and 12 small shipbuilding | patriotic' act.

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Textiles

It was revealed to-day that he had

Textiles Japan has left 2,718,000 sent a message to Azerbaijan ; that, spindles and 133,000 looms but needs Local forces of the province were for her own economy 3,000,000 building fortifications at border Her towns, and added. “Since the troops spindles and 150,000 100ms. manufactured cotton products should are only going there to supervise the be blocked to pay for imperis of row elections so that bona fldó degjullus-

immune to will be elected under the protection cotton. Silk should be

cultivation of the military, any attempt, to pre- reparations. Mulberry

vent their entry can only result in should not be expanded at the ex-

government calling off the ploctions. rise of food cultivation.

"All Persta is looking to Fisheries-This should be immune

from reparations as it is needed for food, but Japan should be provented

plundering (Continued en Page 8).

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